For the past couple of weeks I have been working more and more with women with eating disorders.

Is it the approach of summer and the magazines that are responsable for this ? Maybe but beyond a painful image of themselves, I see obsession and compulsion. I really believe that having a simple and healthy rapport to food in our current society is complicated.

And when I see those women, slowly but surely starting to liberate themselves from the obsession and compulsion, it fills me with joy !

I also think of the following generation and every parent who is comfortable with her/his food has more of a chance of transmitting a healthy rapport to her/his children.

I remember when Amazon was created and one of my oldest friends called me from Brazil to tell me about it, I was estatic. Seriously. I FINALLY had access to all the English litterature at a reasonnable price. And better yet, I had access to all the self-help books that were not yet part of the French market. And I am an avid reader. Obviously I also read more complex books. I like variety.

To come back to what I was saying the other day on meditation, we can only learn a part of meditation in books. After that it’s practice. It’s the same thing in psychology, there is a limit to very fun and interesting self-help books you can find. There comes a time when you need to actually sit down and do the work.

To keep it simple, books help but if you really want to change therapy is better !